Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 123 145
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.060% 0.048% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.051% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £601
25th Percentile £575 £375 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £613
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -34.69% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £425 £628
90th Percentile - - £634
Central London median daily rate £600 £400 £613
% change year-on-year +50.00% -34.69% +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,576 1,943 2,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.32% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,190 1,864
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £696
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +55.41% -8.64%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -2.78% -11.11%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Windows Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Windows Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, Windows Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Windows Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware